Did you know that there is an American Society of Indexers? How meta is that? In a similar vein, our fearless leaders here at the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds recently spearheaded the creation of an animal behavior ontology. I was browsing through the list of behaviors and have concluded…

I got this in my email today: What children can teach us: Lessons learned from the trenches of digital libraries “…developing digital libraries that support young people in querying, browsing, and reading scanned materials.” It all sounds very impressive until you click the link. Look at that thing! It’s like…

Fellow library workers, let me engage you in a thought experiment. Say you are changing the oxygen sensor in your aged vehicle with your friend Brian, and it is getting dark and has started raining and in spite of your best efforts you can’t get the old part off. As…

We were playing chess at the co-op picnic this weekend, when I got the chance to do a nice rant to locally-famous Green party presidential candidate Paul Glover on the subject of librarianship, digital preservation, and last-ditch measures for funding our local library. Millages seem to be kind of a…

Oh that wacky American Library Association convention. Imagine, if you will, 50 billion librarians wandering around downtown Toronto. Yes, it looked like that. I did a bit of shopping on Sunday afternoon, and had the honor of being informed by a salesgirl that a librarian had appeared on TLC’s A…

Flowers and Fishnets my dearies, spring has come to my Eastern College Town, and the windows of the library have been covered with plywood to protect them from the ravages of Drunken Students! Having done my undergraduate degree in a school where Drunken Students have the regular habit of burning…

The section of the library dedicated to books on librarianship is located outside my office door. I thumbed through a few of them this morning. I was curious what a book on librarianship looked like, since I never really saw that many at “library school”. Most were from the 70s…

Horrible dreams about the Baghdad library early this morning. Which got me wondering if there even was a library in Afghanistan left to be destroyed. What about a Librarians without Borders program to build and promote threatened libraries?